Duson is a very small town located in the state of Louisiana. With a population of 1,341 people and three associated neighborhoods, Duson is the 212th largest community in Louisiana.Duson is a blue-collar town, with 40.26% of people working in blue-collar occupations, while the average in America is just 27.7%. Overall, Duson is a town of service providers, construction workers and builders, and sales and office workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Duson who work in food service (14.74%), sales jobs (10.00%), and healthcare suport services (8.16%). It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Duson has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Duson has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Duson than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Duson may be for you. Duson is a small town, and as such doesn't have a public transit system that people use to get to and from their jobs every day.The percentage of people in Duson with college degrees is quite a bit lower than the national average for cities and towns of 21.84%: just 11.11% of people over 25 have a bachelor's degree or advanced degree. The per capita income in Duson in 2022 was $15,036, which is low income relative to Louisiana and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $60,144 for a family of four. Duson also has one of the higher rates of people living in poverty in the nation, with 39.31% of its population below the federal poverty line.Duson is a very ethnically-diverse town. The people who call Duson home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Duson residents report their race to be White, followed by Black or African-American. Important ancestries of people in Duson include Acadian/Cajun, French, French Canadian, English, and German. The most common language spoken in Duson is English. Other important languages spoken here include Spanish and French.
